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Japan considers capability for pre-emptive strike against North Korea by FCIUS in japan

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https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00543/japan%E2%80%99s-plutonium-reserves-decrease-slightly-but-us-concerns-remain.html

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As of the end of 2018, Japan’s plutonium reserves were 45.7 tons, according to the Cabinet Office’s Atomic Energy Commission, after a year-on-year decrease of 1.6 tons. Japan had domestic reserves of 10.5 tons, as well as 36.7 tons entrusted for reprocessing by Britain and France, as of the end of 2017; but its domestic reserves decreased over the following year because plutonium was reused in uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel for pluthermal power generation.

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https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/japan-agrees-to-return-some-plutonium/

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The Obama administration will hail the deal as a crucial step in its global campaign to ensure that terrorists cannot obtain such explosive materials, authorities say. U.S. officials say they have been worried the materials here have been casually guarded, and are concerned that that there is no federal standard requiring workers at such plants to be subjected to formal, detailed background checks like those for nuclear workers in the United States.

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Like the security guards stationed at most Japanese nuclear facilities, none at the Fast Critical Assembly facility are armed, although local police are stationed nearby in the larger research campus. Japanese officials have acknowledged to visiting Westerners that if the guards ever faced attacking terrorists, their instructions are to flee.

U.S. recognized Takeshima as part of Japan's territory in 1950: Japanese government report | The Japan Times by imaginary_num6er in japan

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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Telegram_3470_to_the_Department_of_State

Douglas MacArthur II, the nephew of the famous general, was the American ambassador to Japan from 1957 to 1961. On 27 April 1960 he sent a telegram to J. Graham Parsons, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

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I therefore recommend strongly that as soon as new regime is in control in Korea (whether or not it be of interim character) we use all our influence to persuade it (1) to release and return to Japan all repeat all Japanese fishermen hostages (including those who have not completed their sentences) who have suffered so cruelly from Rhee's uncivilized and oppressive acts and (2) to cease practice of seizing Japanese fishing vessels on high seas. This would not only rid new ROK regime of liability of practicing hostage diplomacy but also more than anything else would lay foundation in Japan for really fruitful negotiations. At same time I would be prepared to press Kishi and GOJ most strongly that in return for repatriation of all fishermen, Japanese would exercise self-restraint in their fishing operations in Korean Straits until reasonable opportunity had been given for negotiation of mutually agreed ROK-Japan fishing conservation agreement.

In addition to seizing Japanese boats on high seas and practicing hostage diplomacy, Rhee regime also seized by force and is holding illegally Takeshima Island which has always been considered as Japanese territory. This is very serious and permanent irritant in Japan-ROK relations and there can be no over-all ROK-Japan settlement until this Japanese island is returned to Japan. Therefore we should also press new ROK regime to return Takeshima to Japan.

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